If you want to understand the groundswell of support behind Trump, and the revolt against the European elites represented in things such as the UK’s upcoming “Brexit” referendum, just take in this poster for an upcoming lecture at the University of Edinburgh, where a distinguished Harvard professor will make the case openly for why people like her should have more power over everyone else:
Everyone remembers William F. Buckley’s old line that he’d rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard. Pretty clear that you’d also be better off being educated by the first 200 names in the phone directory than the faculty of Harvard.
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